Attachment for planters.



P. F. HANSEN.

ATTACHMENT FOB. PLANTERS.

APPLICATION FILED .TAN.15, 1912.

1,028,353, Patented June 4, 1912.

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witnesses. Invantar,

Attorney.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co.. WASHINGTON, l). c.

PETER F. HANSEN, OF QUASQUETON, IOWA.

ATTACHMENT FOR PLANTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June a, 1912.

Application filed January 15, 1912. Serial No. 671,152.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER F. HANSEN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Quasqueton, Buchanan county, Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments forPlanters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in attachments for planters, andthe object of my improvement is to provide for the seeding-shoe of aplanter auxiliary adjustable lateral drags or spacers adapted to permitthe blade of said shoe to penetrate the earth to a desired adjusteddepth, and said device being so formed and arranged as to clear allobstructions and avoid gathering weeds and brush while traveling alongthe ground. This object I have accomplished by the means which arehereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a plantershoe equipped with my improvedspacing means. Fig. 2 is a plan view of said parts as shown in Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference denote cor responding parts throughout theseveral news.

The planter-shoe 1 is of the ordinary type supported on a dependingshank from the superstructure of the planter not shown. The follower ordepth spacing runners 2 are located-on either side of said shoe 1,spaced apart therefrom, with the inner sides of their rear ends beveledoff to secure equal clearance between them and the widened shank in therear. The forward parts of said runners 2 are curved upwardly with theirforward ends secured to a cross-bar 3 by means of bolts 10. The saidcross-bar is formed preferably of two like parts each having shanksextending at right angles in opposite directions, and said shanks beingorificed in line to permit of the passage therethrough of the securingbolts 4t and 6 on either side, front and back, of the upturned forwardpart of the shoe 1. The

said bolts are secured by nuts 5 and 7 respectively. Since the bolts 4:and 6 are located on opposite sides of the shoe, the runners may beadjusted vertically along the shoe by merely sliding the bolt 6 forwardor back in its receiving orifice, the latter being in the form of a slot8 to permit such adjustment.

It will be seen that the only connection between my runners 2 and theshoe 1 is at the top of the forward part of said shoe, and that therunners are spaced apart from the shoe all around below the cross-bar 3,while the cross-bar 3 is located a considerable distance above theground, as is indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 1. Since there isalways, no matter what the adjustment, so much clearance between saidparts and the surface of the ground passed over, weeds, straw, branchesand other obstructions are passed over or deflected to one side withoutcollecting upon said parts. Other devices having spacing runners are soclosely secured to the shoe and with so little clearance forobstructions of a strawy nature, that they quickly become filled up witha brush of such matters, which effaces the trough of the shoe andnullifies the effect of the shoe on the soil in planting. My device,being provided with so much clearance by reason of its construction andadjustable connection at a certain part of the shoe, will always be freefrom adherent brushy materials, and thus will be always operative inpractice. r

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is:

In combination, a planter-shoe, a pair of spacing-runners located onopposite sides of said shoe and spaced apart therefrom throughout, andhaving their forward ends bent upwardly to conform to the forwardcurvature of said shoe, cross-connections between the forward ends ofsaid runners and the forward end of said shoe, comprising alinedcross-bars secured to said runners and having oppositely directedprojections adapted to contact with opposite sides of the shoe oppositeeach other, said projections having alined bolt-holes forward of theshoe and alined horizontal slots in the rear of the shoe, and boltspassed through said holes and slots to engage the forward and rear edges,of said shoe, with securingmeans therefor, said slots permittingvertical adjustment of said runners along said 10 shoe.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 26th day of Dec. 1911.

PETER F. I'IANSEN.

Witnesses J OHN F. JoI-INsoN, GEO. G. KENNEDY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

